30. Donkey and me :.

Imagine some brown chewing gum was accidentally stuck to a donkey’s forehead like an Indian ladies ‘tilak’. The gum being brown in colour, didn’t know, where it ended and where the donkey began. It went everywhere the donkey went, but was aware that the donkey was going where that the gum itself was going. After 6 months, when everybody started addressing the donkey as such, the gum thought everybody was addressing itself. Now the gum identified itself with the donkey as if it owned the donkey. When the donkey’s foot was hurt, the gum said, it –itself- was hurt at that point and so on. One day, the gum got dislodged and fell down. The donkey went about its daily life and the pain now never belonged to the chewing gum. The gum was ‘enlightened’. The donkey never knew it had or had to have -a owner and the chewing gum would be the least of any such imaginary owners. Similar is our ‘me’ sense. The I is ok. The ‘me’ and ‘mine’ are dangerous one’s.

That’s why they say, nobody gets enlightened. The gum is a 'I-thought' that sticks and drops off. So body feels light of thought process. There is not going to be a 'enlightened donkey'. Donkey will remain donkey. Sense of any owner of any body will not be perceived that way from then on.